It might but I may be a mess too. I wouldn't do that on production.

Install nw on the new server and test it thoroughly. Once all goes well (it 
should) it is safe to perform a supported migration/renaming as documented in 
the nw guides.

A search for 'migration' and 'upgrade' on this list may give more clues. This 
question has been asked on this list several times.

Jee

Venkat Tudi <venkat.tudi AT GMAIL DOT COM> wrote:

>For this Migration from our current Networker Server.
>
>This what I was thinking.
>
>Add an entry to the hostfile of the current Networker Server of the NEW
>NETWR SERVER
>
>
>
>10.92.1.100         NETWRKR            NETWRKR.domain.org
>NETWRKRTMP  NETWRKRTMp.domain.org
>
>
>
>Run the backups for a day or 2.
>
>Then
>
>Install netwrorker 8.0 in the new server NETWRKRTMP.
>
>Copy the RES, Index, MM databases over
>
>Start backups. This should give me the ability to do the legacy restores.
>
>Will this work?
>
>-- 
>Venkat Tudi